Why TV is so bad
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
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The Consequences of TV in the 60s
Gilligan's Island did exactly one thing that was clever or subversive. Americans sitting in front of their big TVs didn't want to be challenged, they did not want to feel dumb. They named the boat in Gilligan's Island after Newt Minow, the guy who said TV was a banal wasteland.
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